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Saturday, November 22, 2008

D'oh!-Nuts - Giant Shredded Veggie Pancake and Two Awards!

First things first! Thank you so much for all your lovely comments on my previous post! I'm glad I'm not quite as boring as I thought.

Food time! I noticed that I've lost a few pounds lately, so I'm trying to gain them back. The thing is that I'm a hard-gainer, and I have to eat like a quarterback to gain or even maintain weight. Or maybe I could just eat like Homer Simpson, hence my D'oh!-Nuts!

Coconut and cream filled doughnuts

Glazed. Chocolate and sprinkles. Chocolate and almonds

Aren't they purdy?

I used this recipe from allrecipes.com, but without the egg and with whole wheat pastry flour instead of all purpose flour. And I baked them instead of frying them, which made them more like a sweet bread than doughnuts, but they were yummy nonetheless.

Last night we had what I so unwittingly chose to call a Giant Shredded Veggie Pancake. (Thank you, Denny, for pointing out that this looks a lot like a rosti.) Doh!

Here he is on my skillet. I had already cooked one side and flipped him over.

Here he is on my plate with some green beans and cauliflower.

This was kind of an "everything but the kitchen sink" dish, so I don't have a recipe. Here's roughly what I did:

I shredded 3 medium sized potatoes in my food processor and transferred them to a mixing bowl. Then I shredded a large carrot and some celery and added it to the potatoes. Then I sauteed some chopped onion with some chopped frozen spinach while the potatoes released their potatoey juices. Then I transferred the potatoes to a large strainer and squeezed the liquid out, transferred them back to the mixing bowl, added the onions and spinach, about two cups of ground beef-style crumbles, and some salt and spices. Next time I will use sausage style crumbles instead of ground beef style.

I firmly pressed the whole thing onto a well oiled and preheated non-stick round frying pan, and cooked it, covered, over medium-low heat for about 15 minutes jiggling it from time to time. Finally, I slid it onto a plate and flipped it over the (re-oiled) frying pan, and cooked uncovered for about 10 more minutes.

See how well lit my pictures are, and how I'm not complaining about not having any natural light for dinner time today? I must be on Santa's good list because I got my Christmas present early and it was a photography lighting set, complete with two different light tents, fancy lights, tripods, and six backdrops. Isn't Mr. Wing-it the best Santa ever? *SWOON*

Congrats on the awards my sweet River of love! You're adorable and very interesting (teehee) so I'm not surprised at all by all this popularity! You are so kind to honor we vegan mums! Merci mille fois!And I am so wishing I had some of your donut love! They don't really exist here...which is good, because I would buy them! Making them with my foot up will be too much of a pain (which is good - keep me from eating them!).

and oh my goodness of all that is glorious & awesome - your D'oh!-Nuts! squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! they ARE SOOOOO purdy! i want to eat them all! RIGHT NOW! i need to make donuts some day soon. i need a donut pan & a day to have fun with it all. mmmmmmmmm! your Giant Shredded Veggie Pancake - that looks soooooo awesome! Mr. Wing-It is too sweet! hooooooray for your photography lighting set! superw00t!

river, thanks for the deodorant help! i'm gonna try that one out next time i go to whole foods. the grocery store near me only sells tom's so i figured i'd give it a whirl. as of now, it's still working!!!

Oh! Those donuts are totally orgasmic! Talk about food porn. I used to love, love, love donuts in my pregan days, but I've yet to find a decent vegan donut that tastes like my old non-vegan donuts. Of course, the cake donuts at Whole Foods are cool...but not the same. Yours look to die for!

Mr Wing-it is the best Santa (tell him I've been a good girl too):)Congrats on your awards River - that'll bump it up to three now - well four actually 'cos you got the Butterfly one twice!!See....you are a genius!And looking at your Rostii makes me want to dive straight into it - it looks sooo yum River!!!

Congrats on the award -- you especially deserve them after all your cute Halloween posts. Those donuts look like an awesome way to gain that weight back because they look sooo delicious! I need to make my own sometime. I have also been dying to try your coconut whippy cream and STILL haven't!!! Shame on me!